After driving over a thousand miles, it was worth it...

>After some 350 miles I escaped la Florida...


>Next morning, I got to Santee, South Carolina before sunrise so no light.
>Lots of time to spare so I chatted with some dudes who had ridiculously expensive telescopes and cameras to record the eclipse.  Bonus was good parking, I can't believe how quickly the parking lot filled up at 6am local time.
>Killed the rest of my time hiking around and picking out a good spot but it didn't seem to matter being overhead and all.
>Once it started, there were only a couple big clouds that passed over after first contact and that was it.

>This was minutes before totality...


>Totality, it's like the sky changed at the snap of the thumb!


The cicadas and crickets totally wigged out and the birds went crazy!  Best way to describe it, it's like someone had a dimmer switch on the sun and nature totally freaked out!

Once the moon totally covered the sun, I was completely awestruck...

It was an otherworldly experience, and pictures don't do it justice.  Seeing that infinitely black center with the giant yellowish corona wisps dancing outside of it, no words...

I was shaking so bad in pure awe, so I'm glad I had my tripod set up in place...



On my way back, I'm glad I took Georgia SR-17 and I-295...
Downtown Jacksonville is a clusterfuck atm with construction.  Well, at least I ate at my first Zaxby's!  

tl;dr - You need more than two lanes on I-95 South Carolina!

Glad you enjoyed it, the pics are nice

Do they not have Zaxby's in your area?

InnovΔ wrote on 08/23/17 at 10:05:39:


Yes it did...lol

After total, there were bugs that gave pin hole projections...lol

sweet pics Etch, also glad the legend of Zaxby's lives on lol

I actually got to see complete totality at school here in Tennessee

Zarkov wrote on 08/24/17 at 12:01:51:

You just had to go to the newsstands you lazy mofo

Was in Oregon. Under totality, clear skies, perfect. Your traffic suck so much, though.

duffjr wrote on 08/24/17 at 23:18:46:


Was the dragon the one who convinced you to use D.K.Jr at Battle Mode this year?

I only had to drive 40 min west to reach the centre of totality's path  

https://m.imgur.com/a/n955a

the best shots I got of it ^^

Glad you staked out a good spot too brah

You were chasing the sun and I was chasing the moon 2 years ago: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1414462715/107#107
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 aka the Great American Eclipse and the Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse of 2015 aka the last of the Four Blood Moons

I totally enjoyed my exclipserience [ouch!] and I'm glad you enjoyed your eclipse too, especially on August 21; the feast day of Saint Christophe in France-- I love the signs coincidences.

Yes you were there at the good moment when the moon casts a large shadow onto Earth's surface and I was over the moon when the whole moon entered Earth's shadow
As you can see we are two-part shadows and the circle is now complete... and I am your..(?) XD





I know I was right for choosing you to be part of that process, senpai!...

You have survived the painful storm of Irma and you return stronger than ever with a new flap WR and skilled enough to enter Sage Mode { } congrats and also thank you Admin and/or Mods for using that special shell I created; the idea was what if fusion Myth/Ninja? And I saw that a ninja mod becoming a myth becomes a sage , so also thanks guys for this sage pun related to my avatar of the Sage of Six Paths -Rikudō Sennin- and his Banbutsu Sōzō no Jutsu.  

Seems like the moment has come to lay the Karts on the table and give you --no more no less-- than  PEACE or WAR Etch , so what if I told you.. Retro Ghost Valley 1 SC?--do you see something in particular beyond your World Record???


Boooogus:

shit posts! (not bad bro!)